{"id":7360,"date":"2020-07-21T00:58:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T00:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=7360"},"modified":"2020-07-21T00:58:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T00:58:16","slug":"city-implements-covid-19-food-safety-inspections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/07\/21\/city-implements-covid-19-food-safety-inspections\/","title":{"rendered":"City implements COVID-19 food safety inspections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City of Newcastle has\u00a0introduced a\u00a0program to conduct\u00a0COVID-19 safety inspections on\u00a0food businesses\u00a0in Newcastle.<br \/>\nThe City\u2019s Environmental Health officers will educate local businesses about COVID-19 Safety Plans and will also now undertake proactive compliance inspections of local cafes, restaurants and food courts.<br \/>\nThe trial program\u00a0aims to\u00a0provide a\u00a0positive\u00a0impact\u00a0to both\u00a0food businesses and the\u00a0community\u00a0through improved\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0safety\u00a0compliance reducing\u00a0the risk of\u00a0virus\u00a0transmission.<br \/>\nThe program\u00a0has been developed\u00a0in response\u00a0to requests\u00a0for the City to\u00a0support\u00a0local food businesses to\u00a0implement safety plans and\u00a0will\u00a0also\u00a0respond to compliance complaints.<br \/>\nFood businesses must prepare and implement an effective COVID-19 Safety Plan\u00a0in accordance with the\u00a0NSW Public Health Order.<br \/>\nFor\u00a0further\u00a0information on COVID-19\u00a0support\u00a0including access to a\u00a0food safety\u00a0checklist, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City of Newcastle has\u00a0introduced a\u00a0program to conduct\u00a0COVID-19 safety inspections on\u00a0food businesses\u00a0in Newcastle. The City\u2019s Environmental Health officers will educate local businesses about COVID-19 Safety Plans and will also now undertake proactive compliance inspections of local cafes, restaurants and food courts. The trial program\u00a0aims to\u00a0provide a\u00a0positive\u00a0impact\u00a0to both\u00a0food businesses and the\u00a0community\u00a0through improved\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0safety\u00a0compliance reducing\u00a0the risk of\u00a0virus\u00a0transmission. The program\u00a0has &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/07\/21\/city-implements-covid-19-food-safety-inspections\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;City implements COVID-19 food safety inspections&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}